Amphitheater of Athens, Greece

Nothing to Declare

It got terrific reviews, even the Guardian gave it a good review. It didn't sell at all, I don't know ...

Trans Fixed

In the article that shut down my life, "€œTransphobia Is Perfectly Natural,"€ I likened sex-change surgery to self-mutilation. As the mob chased me through the village with ...

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady

For Cheat’s Sake

It was, using Edward De Vere's words, much ado about nothing. The media didn"€™t think so, called it "€œDeflategate,"€ and one of America's great sporting heroes, Tom ...

Beta Male Suckiness at National Review

Rich Lowry wants you to know that, "€œNo, National Review didn"€™t endorse gay marriage,"€ you silly. Alas, he was ten days late, and now the magazine's spring fundraiser ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Sappiest, Crappiest, and Nappiest Headlines BALTIMORE, BLOODY BALTIMORE What's been referred to by the Pansy Press as "€œunrest"€ in Baltimore"€”which makes it ...

All This I Had Forgotten

Everyone supposes that he is the world authority on his own life, especially on his own thoughts and experiences. But is this really so? I began to doubt it when, the other day, I ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What’s Real and What’s Imagined

An operation on my hand after a karate injury has me reading more than usual, and even attempting Don DeLillo’s Underworld, but I soon give it up. Truman Capote famously said ...

Steps of the Vatican Museum

What’s Up With Roman Catholicism?

Pronouncements from the Vatican calling for more welfare socialism, apparently confusing private charity, which is a Christian virtue, with state ...

Follow Heart Whatever Desire

Here it comes, the big seven-oh. Next Wednesday to be exact; around 6:45 GMT, to be even more exact. It was quite an entrance, as I recorded in We Are Doomed. I was actually ...

Humor is Truth

Writing "€œIt's been a bad week for white professors"€ is a lazy, hacky opening. Especially because it cues up, at least in my movie-addled mind, Addison DeWitt's weary ...

What if Those Bikers had Been, Like, Another Color?

Only in America can the media take a deadly shootout among white and Hispanic bikers and somehow make it all about black people. And only in America can these same media ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Daunting, Haunting, and Taunting Headlines ERIN GO GAY The arc of the moral universe bent over, grabbed its ankles, and accepted “justice” into its ...

Derbyshire’s Grand Unified Theory of American Liberalism

It's hard to blame foreigners for taking advantage of our stupidity, but ... why are we so ...

As Good As It Gets

It’s as good as it gets; a light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking north on a silent Park Avenue hoping to get into trouble. 14,000 yellow taxis have ...

Bill Nye

Nye Lied, I Sighed

Bill Nye the Science Guy gave a commencement speech at Rutgers on Sunday. Reading the speech left me thinking that if this is America's designated Science Guy, I can be the ...

That Ignoble Nightmare

One of the saddest parts of growing old is the realization that some of the best and most incisive books you read in your youth have had damn near zero impact on the world. 1988's ...


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